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Monday, March 05, 2007

Day 1 Hotsos #1

Overall a very Hectic and full of learning Day

The Day Started out with a Ken jacobs(Dr DBA) going down memory lane for oracle. its been 30 years since oracle corp was founded. the theme was unconventional.

a few of the milstones that i got were

Oracle ver 2 =1979. There was no version 1

was written in assembly on PDP-11

had a UFI(User Friendly Interface) and for reporting had RPF.

no row locks

Oracle Ver 3 =1983 Was Written in C

had transactions and the concept of before image in an external file.

Oracle Ver 4=1984

introduced read consistency . Also called reliable oracle

Oracle ver 5.0 =1985 vr 5.1=86

Audit Trail(ken jacob)

client/server database

DBLinks(5.1) distributed database was written and implemented for larry in a weekend.

OPS

Mar 12 1996 Oracle went public

Oracle 6 =1988

was rearchitected had SMP scalability row level locking and seperation on undo and redo. ALso ver 1 of online backups

lost reliability.

Oracle Ver 7.0 1992. 7.1 1994 7.2 1995 7.3 1996

PL/sql,RI,Roles and parallel features

Oracle 8 1997

Multimedia Database

Oracle 8i 1999

iFs

Java in the db

Oracle 9i 2001 R2 2002

RAC & XDB

Flashback/Undo

Oracle 10G 2004 R2 2005

Grid

automation of processes

So under the banner of stuff that oracle did unconventionally the following were prominent